Find Your Talent school coordinator role
Photograph by Alex Wolkowicz
Each Find Your Talent school has a nominated 'Find Your Talent shool cordinator' whose role it is to champion and coordinate their schools involvement in the programme and to act as an advocate for cultural provision in the wider educational and cultural sector.
Find Your Talent is a national change programme, transforming education and cultural engagement for children and young people. The Find Your Talent programme is investigating 'what does it take to give every young person the chance to experience cultural activities for at least five hours a week' and schools are an integral part of this research journey with us.
It is vital that we communicate effectively with really effective and appropriate contacts in each school within the three target areas to ensure that they get the most out of the programme. Find Your Talent school coordinators play an integral role in making sure their colleagues are informed about what's on offer and ensuring the programme has wide reaching effects in their school. They also contribute to a network that is helping to inform and shape the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of Find Your Talent within schools. This network forms part of the continuous dialogue between the Find Your Talent team and the borough.
Find Your Talent school coordinators have the capacity to disseminate information and make things happen across the school community. Find Your Talent is not just about working with the traditional 'arts' subjects but creative learning and development across all aspects of school life.
Purpose of role
To champion and coordinate your school's engagement with the Find Your Talent programme and the wider cultural offer .
To act as an advocate for Find Your Talent and the wider cultural offer in the educational and cultural sector
Benefits of the role
As well as schools benefiting from their involvement, Find Your Talent school coordinators also benefit personally from a range of personal and professional development opportunities including:
- Involvement in brand new initiatives, activities, projects and events, both short term and long term
- Opportunities for the whole school community to get involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of this Find Your Talent pathfinder
- A range of CPD opportunities
- Chance to work and form partnerships with other professionals from both the children's and cultural sectors
Key functions of role
Understanding of Find Your Talent
- To understand the aims of the programme and be able to communicate these effectively
- To understand that Find Your Talent is about creative thinking, learning and development all aspects of children and young people's lives, not just their involvement in 'the arts' and culture.
- To understand and communicate Find Your Talent as a national change programme, rather than a one-off initiative
Communicating and disseminating information
- To disseminate information about Find Your Talent to the whole school community and relevant networks and partnerships that your school is involved in
- To communicate relevant issues, queries, successes and good practice back to the wider network of Find Your Talent coordinators
- Be aware of relevant local, regional and national initiatives that link to Find Your Talent
Considering existing cultural offer in schools
- To map what is already happening in target schools
- To look at how Find Your Talent can link with and enhance the curriculum, in your schools and across the wider education sector
Assessing and developing schools engagement with the cultural offer available
- To identify and explore barriers to schools engaging with the existing cultural offer, both with the LARC partners and also locally
- Suggest and develop ways of addressing these barriers and developing existing good practice.
Facilitating children and young people's involvement in the FYT programme
- To ensure that children and young people in your school play a meaningful and active part in shaping, delivering and evaluating FYT in Liverpool
- To identify appropriate children and young people to be involved in FYT projects
Developing creative learning across the school
- To have knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm for creative teaching and learning as a key to raising achievement, aspiration and motivation.
- To build a community of creative learning practice across the school involving all departments as appropriate.
- To involve parents, governors and other members of the community
- To consider the developmental needs of the school and how Find Your Talent could possibly address and support these
Find Your Talent school coordinators work closely with the Find Your Talent area coordinators in each borough. Contact them here.
